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eavesdropping on the TOR mailing list is fun, since i only have knowledge of 10% of the terms so the rest of the afternoon is usually filled with watching videos all 'ok how do VPN's actually work?' 'what's a websocket?' 'how does shadowsocks circumvent censorship vs v2ray (apparently better for the great firewall) vs openvpn?'

i half-expect lolisho/certian kink art to be illegal to some degree in the next decade much like how i anticipated the social media collapse while building the website, so it's also a little wargaming of a) knowing the infrastructure to access, and b) [nods vaguely in the direction of how infrastructure can assist there]

(it's even funnier b/c lolisho art isn't even quote-unquote "my thing". i'm just so fuckin pissed off at art censors that i'd go to the mat defending 'em out of principle, since it's always the first one to get bloodied, so to speak.)

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Many places have a “forest that shouldn’t be entered.” Even people who are used to working in the mountains feel there is something there. They are suddenly overcome with fear and it becomes the custom to avoid certain places. These places exist. I don’t know what is there, but I think they are real. I’m not a believer in the occult, but the world is more than we can fathom with our five senses. This world doesn’t exist just for humans. So I think it’s all right to have such things. This is why I think it’s a mistake to think about nature from the idea of efficiency, that forests should be preserved because they are essential for human beings …

I am concerned, because for me the deep forest is connected in some way to the darkness deep in my heart. I feel that if it is erased, then the darkness inside my heart would also disappear, and my existence would grow shallow.

Hayao Miyazaki, “Totoro Was Not Made as a Nostalgia Piece”, Starting Point: 1979-1996 (via perkwunos)